{"id":29984,"date":"2023-11-17T22:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T06:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29984"},"modified":"2023-11-17T22:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T06:22:59","slug":"david-ben-gurion-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/david-ben-gurion-on-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID BEN-GURION ON ISRAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53092\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Goldmann reported that Ben Gurion had told him in private in 1953:<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ben-Gurion#cite_note-75\">[75]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ben-Gurion#cite_note-76\">[76]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ben-Gurion#cite_note-77\">[77]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ben-Gurion#cite_note-78\">[78]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it\u2019s true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-Semitism the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/6023-David_Ben_Gurion\">David Ben-Gurion<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe Jewish Paradox\u201d. Book by Nahum Goldmann, p. 121, 1978.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886 \u2013 December 1, 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel as well as the state\u2019s first prime minister. Born in P\u0142o\u0144sk, then part of Congress Poland, to Polish Jewish parents, he immigrated to the Palestine region of the Ottoman Empire in 1906.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ben-Gurion\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldmann reported that Ben Gurion had told him in private in 1953:[75][76][77][78] Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/david-ben-gurion-on-israel\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29985,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions\/29985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}